The Multi-Lingual Button Quail Taking Button on the road? Across the border or across the pond, here's how to tell folks who your little companion is without sounding like a total tourist! (Culled from various sites on the Internet; sorry, I can't help you with pronunciation!) The Button Quail we commonly keep as a pet is known by many other names! Its scientific name (Latin) can be either coturnix chinensis or excalfactoria chinensis. In English,the Button Quail is also called the "Chinese Painted Quail", the "King Quail", and the "Blue-Breasted Quail". Below are some other translations I have found: French Caille peinte German Zwergwachtel Japanese [Nankin] Hime-Uzura Italian Quaglietta Mascherata, Quaglia di Cina Danish Kinesisk Dværgvagtel Swedish Kinesiska Dvärgvaktlar Dutch Chinese Dwergkwartel Finnish Siniviiriäinen Chinese xiao-an-chun, lan-xiong-chun Vietnamese cay Trung Quoc Czech Køepelka èínská Malaysian Pikau Indonesian Puyuh Pepekoh Chilean Codorniz Pintada China Djabwurrung (Australian Aboriginal Dialect) yuugib Dhauwurdwurrung (Australian Aboriginal Dialect) arrokii, peepeep The "true" buttonquails (turnix spp.) are not quails at all, and are not commonly kept as pets (in fact, there may only be two or three in captivity in the United States at this time!), but they also are worthy of mention here: ENGLISH Little Button-Quail Barred Button-Quail (Bustard Quail) Painted Button-Quail Red-backed Buttonquail LATIN Turnix sylvatica Turnix suscitator Turnix varia Turnix maculosa GERMAN Laufhÿhnchen Bindenlauf- hÿhnchen Buntlauf- hÿhnchen Fleckenlauf- hÿhnchen FRENCH Turnix mugissant Turnix combattant Turnix bariolé Turnix moucheté DANISH Europæiske Løbehøne ITALIAN Quaglia tridattila SPANISH Torillo Andaluz Torillo Moteado SWEDISH Springhöna Bandad Springhöna DUTCH Gestreepte vechtkwartel JAPANESE hime mifu uzura Mifu-uzura CHINESE lin san-zhi-chun zong san-zhi-chun VIETNAMESE cun cut nho cun cut lu'ng nau More Buttonquails, and Where They Live ENGLISH LATIN GERMAN WHERE? Little Button-Quail Turnix sylvatica Laufhÿhnchen India, S.E. Asia, Australia, Africa Little Quail Turnix velox Zwerglauf- hÿhnchen S.W. Australia Painted Button-Quail Turnix varia Buntlauf- hÿhnchen Australia, New Calodonia Red-backed Button-Quail Turnix maculosa Fleckenlauf- hÿhnchen Coastal Northern Australia Black-breasted Button-Quail Turnix melanogaster Schwarzbrust Laufhÿhnchen Queensland, New South Wales Back to the Button Quail Index